Molly Shea and Jason Krauber, the creative core of New York’s buzzworthy Acrylics, employ an expansive palette of sonic colors and textures not frequently associated with the noisemakers and trendsetters of Bushwick and Williamsburg. The band has been providing a contrast to lo-fi hipsteria by crafting a sound influenced more by radio-friendly 1970’s pop-rock and less by a desire to induce ear-bleeding in audience members. Their first release, a five-ditty EP entitled All of the Fire, was recorded in a church and produced by Chris Taylor of Grizzly Bear, almost instantaneously earning them significant local street cred and building interest for a follow-up LP. – Read Toney Palumbo’s interview with the band here.